Radio: Hollywood Is Humming

When they are good & ready, Hollywood's moviemakers confidently expect to take over television as entertainment.

After three years of making films exclusively for TV, the Hal Roach studios, well in the black, are now producing 1,500 hours of TV films a year, nearly three times Hollywood's annual output of feature movies. The 18-acre Roach lot, once used for such movie epics as Joan of Arc and Of Mice and Men, now gives houseroom to TV's Amos 'n' Andy, Trouble with Father (featuring Stu Erwin), Racket Squad, Mystery Theater, and a filmed version of Beulah.

Everyman's Entertainment. Burly, 33-year-old Hal Roach Jr., who...